Movies like The Passage 1979

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The Passage (1979)
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The Passage (1979)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: During WW 2, a Basque shepherd is approached by the underground, who wants him to lead a scientist and his family across the Pyrenees. While being pursued by a sadistic German.
Style: suspense, factual, tense, disturbing, cult classic, action adventure, independent film
Plot: world war two, scientist, exploitation, pursuit, resistance, rescue mission, ss officer, nazi, shepherd, machine gun, world war, mountain, train, snow, female nudity, gypsy, avalanche, ss, family relations, assassination, nudity, chase, nude, female in shower, basque ...
Time: 1940s, year 1979
Place: basque country, france

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, realistic, tense and serious films with plots about world war two, world war, war, nazi, soldier, military and battles mostly in War, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like The Passage: The Guns of Navarone (1961), The 25th Hour (1967), Johnny the Partisan (2000), Strange Gardens (2003), Mission of Honor (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Guns of Navarone (1961)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 158 min.
Story: A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.
Style: suspense, exciting, tense, intense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, behind enemy lines, resistance, nazi, military, island, mercenary, wartime, world war, war, battles, allies ...
Time: year 1961, 20th century, 1940s, year 1943
Place: greece, fictional island, germany, hellas, mediterranean sea ...
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95%
The 25th Hour (1967)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Italy, Yugoslavia
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A Romanian peasant fights to get back to his family after he's imprisoned by the Nazis.The picture is based on real events. It includes Hungary's government in collaboration with the Nazis, the encroachment of Romania by Stalin's ...
Plot: world war two, nazi, world war, racism, wartime, war, peasant, jew persecution, village, deportation, volunteer, holocaust ...
Time: 1940s, year 1967
Place: romania, hungary
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78%
Johnny the Partisan (2000)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 135 min.
Story: After the 8th September 1943 north of Italy is occupied by Germans. Italian army collapsed and the soldiers are escaped to the mountains trying to set up a resistance. Many civilians did the same and Johnny, an English literature student, is among ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, exciting, bleak
Plot: resistance, world war two, resistance movement, partisan, murder, war zone, fascism, wartime life, italian history, nazi, world war, holocaust ...
Time: 1940s
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Strange Gardens (2003)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Lucien, 14, can’t understand why his father, a serious and respected teacher, makes a fool of himself by dressing up as a clown and giving a show. André, Lucien’s father’s best friend, feels for the teenager and decides to reveal something ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense
Plot: occupied france, world war two, french resistance, german occupation, nazi occupation, sabotage, resistance fighter, occupation, fighting the system, resistance, fight, war ...
Time: 1940s, year 2003
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Mission of Honor (2018)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK, Poland
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The story of the Polish fliers who found themselves fighting for the freedom of their own country in foreign skies. Seen through the eyes of Jan Zumbach, fighter ace and adventurer, it tells how the Poles, driven across Europe by the German war ...
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, exciting, suspenseful
Plot: world war two, air force, air battle, warplane, aviation, killed in action, hurricane, danger, heroic mission, friendship, world war, ambitious ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: poland, united kingdom
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68%
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Allies (2014)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: August 1944 two months after D-Day, the Allies are advancing across France. A team of British and American commandos are dropped behind enemy lines on a secret mission to ambush a German Officer and steal maps charting the location of the enemy ...
Style: captivating, tense, suspense, exciting
Plot: world war two, military, soldier, secret mission, survival, battles, friendship, danger, war, holocaust, occupied france, summer ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1944
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
The Boys from St. Petri (1991)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A group of school-mates form a resistance group in nazi-occupied Denmark.
Plot: world war two, children, wartime life, world war, war, nazi, sabotage, resistance, high school, teenager
Time: 1940s
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Beyond Valkyrie: Dawn of the 4th Reich (2016)
Genre: Action, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An intense thriller from the frontlines of World War II. As Operation Valkyrie prepares to assassinate Adolph Hitler, an Allied special ops team prepares to extract the man destined to lead post-war Germany. But after Valkyrie fails, everything ...
Style: tense, exciting, suspenseful
Plot: nazi, world war two, resistance, wartime, fight, officer, undercover, squad, soldier, twists and turns, holocaust, world war ...
Time: 1940s
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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From Hell to Victory (1979)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story: From Hell To Victory follows the relationship of six friends throughout the Second World War. They meet in a cafe in Paris on 24th August 1939 and agree to meet there on the same day every year. The war however takes them on their own individual ...
Style: spectacular, macaroni combat
Plot: world war two, world war, combat, machine gun, scuba diving, soldier, battles, commando, childhood, nazi, french soldier, war violence ...
Time: 1940s, year 1979, 1930s
Place: france, amsterdam, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
 4.3
 4K
War Pigs (2015)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A rag tag unit of misfits known as the War Pigs must go behind enemy lines to exterminate Nazis by any means necessary.
Style: tense, captivating, perverse
Plot: world war two, nazi, nazi hunter, military, battles, soldier, behind enemy lines, u.s. army, american soldier, wartime, fight, swat ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1944
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Code Name: Emerald (1985)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In april 1944, an allied agent is sent to France in order to rescue an "overlord" captured by the Germans. (An "overlord" is one of the few men who knew the date and place of the "D" day). To achieve this goal, he will ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious
Plot: world war two, world war, spy, revolutionary war, man on a mission, revolutionary, revolution, struggle, freedom, secret mission, espionage, secret agent ...
Time: 1940s, year 1985, year 1944, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 7.4
 29K
Cross of Iron (1977)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 132 min.
Story: It is 1943, and the German army, ravaged and demoralised, are hastily retreating from the Russian front. In the midst of all this madness, conflict brews between the aristocratic yet ultimately pusillanimous Captain Stransky and the courageous ...
Style: political, cult classic, brutal, bleak, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, eastern front, anti war, war, nazi, soldier, wehrmacht, military, russian soldier, survival, world war, war atrocity ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1977, year 1943
Place: germany, bolivia, france, siberia, russia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Out of the Darkness (2022)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Denmark
Duration: 152 min.
Story: This Danish movie "Out of The Darkness" ( in Danish 'De Forbandede år 2' ) is a continuation of the popular WW II drama "Into The Darkness" ( in Danish 'De forbandede år' ) and it portraits the Danish ...
Style: suspenseful, captivating, serious, dramatic
Plot: world war two, resistance, freedom fighter, war, german occupation, wartime, nazism, fight, wartime life, occupation, nazi, nazi soldier ...
Time: 1940s
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Force 10 from Navarone (1978)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Mallory and Miller are back. The survivors of Navarone are sent on a mission along with a unit called Force 10, which is led by Colonel Barnsby. But Force 10 has a mission of their own which the boys know nothing about.
Style: exciting, suspense, intense, stylized, tense ...
Plot: world war two, war, military, survival, nazi, commando, wartime, battles, task force, double agent, spy, world war ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1978
Place: former yugoslavia, italy, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
The Last Escape (1970)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: During World War II, American officer Capt. Lee Mitchell (Stuart Whitman) and a British military unit boldly infiltrate German-occupied enemy territory and attempt to kidnap brilliant Nazi scientist Dr. Von Heinken (Pinkas Braun) and bring him back ...
Style: exciting, captivating, bleak, realistic, serious ...
Plot: world war two, world war, military, kidnapping, battles, danger, heroes, war, confined, soldier, escapades, escape ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1945
Place: germany, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Stones for the Rampart (2014)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 111 min.
Story: To be defeated and not be - a victory. This is the motto that life is guided by three young friends: Alek, Sophy and Rudy. Scouts, high school graduates high school in Warsaw drifting ambitious plans for the future broken through September 1939. ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: world war two, wartime life, against the odds, life is a bitch, daring rescue, danger, prospector, wartime, german occupation, resistance, resistance fighter, nazi occupation ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Last Rescue (2015)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: World World II: Shortly after D-Day, three American soldiers and two Army Corps nurses are stranded behind enemy lines. They take a high-ranking German officer as their prisoner and try to orchestrate an escape.
Style: realistic, captivating, suspense, tense
Plot: world war two, rescue, evacuation, field hospital, d day, friendship, soldier, bravery, danger, rivalry, military, world war ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944, 20th century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story: August 1944. With the American Eighth Air Force poised to strike over Nazi Germany, British Intelligence learns that they could be flying into a deadly trap. With only hours to spare, Flight Lieutenant Edward Barnes must fly a life and death mission ...
Style: disturbing, exciting, suspense, captivating, tense
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Misfit Brigade (1987)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK, Denmark, Yugoslavia, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: War story of the 27th Panzers, Hitler's heavy-duty combat regiment composed of prisoners.
Style: independent film, bleak, rough, captivating, exciting ...
Plot: tank, world war two, eastern front, nazism, war, nazi, world war, holocaust, man on a mission, battles, anti war, soldier ...
Time: 1940s, year 1987
Place: germany, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Operation Crossbow (1965)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant.The film alternates between German developments of the V-1 missile and V-2 rocket (with a German cast speaking their own language) ...
Style: political thriller, retro, cult classic, suspense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, undercover, spy thriller, espionage, nazi, british, world war, luftwaffe, great war, machine gun, aviation, man on a mission ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
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Submarine X-1 (1968)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After losing a submarine and fifty crew in a battle with a German ship during WWII, a Royal Navy officer gets a second chance in a daring raid with midget subs.
Style: captivating, exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot: submarine, world war two, world war, ocean, underwater, diver, combat, kriegsmarine, battles, seaport, power relations, leadership ...
Time: 1940s
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41%
Saints and Soldiers: Airborne Creed (2012)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A group of American GIs work their way through war-torn France during the final days of the Second World War.
Style: realistic, disturbing, captivating, thought provoking, historical drama ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, military, soldier, battles, heroes, danger, world war, mormon, friendship, american soldier, pow, courage ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1944
Place: france, europe, provence
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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This Life (2012)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Denmark
Duration: 122 min.
Story: The true story of the Fiil's a family of innkeepers who during Nazi-Germany's occupation of Denmark took up arms against the German occupiers. But in the fight for freedom, some must die so that others may live.
Style: disturbing, emotional, realistic, captivating, tense ...
Plot: resistance fighter, nazi, world war two, freedom fighter, resistance, nazi occupation, sabotage, danger, heroes, wartime, showdown, self sacrifice ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: denmark, germany, scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min.
Story: In 1944, the American military lands on the shores of Saipan. Refusing to commit suicide with his superiors or be forced into camps for prisoners of war, Captain Oba Sakae leads a group of his men and other similarly minded local residents into the ...
Style: tense, captivating, exciting, suspense, disturbing
Plot: world war two, military, honor, world war, soldier, battles, japanese army, commander, fight, heroic mission, wartime, war ...
Time: 1940s, year 1945, year 1944
Place: japan, pacific ocean, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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The Wall (1982)
Genre: Action, War, Drama
Country: Poland, USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: A dramatic re-enactment of the Warsaw Ghetto Jewish uprising in April 1943 were 650 armed members of the Jewish Fighting Organization of Poland held off a 3,000 strong Nazi force in which only a handful of Jews survived. Tom Conti plays Dolek ...
Style: thought provoking, captivating, tense, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, racism, nazi, anti semitism, society, survival, war, danger, against humanity, military, escapades ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: europe, poland, warsaw poland
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Breakthrough (1979)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: West Germany
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Starting in late May 1944, during the German retreat on the Eastern Front, Captain Stransky (Helmut Griem) orders Sergeant Steiner (Richard Burton) to blow up a railway tunnel to prevent Russian forces from using it. Steiner's platoon fails in ...
Plot: world war two, eastern front, world war, nazi, military, revolutionary, revolution, struggle, ss, holocaust, freedom, revolutionary war ...
Time: 1940s, year 1979, year 1944, 20th century
Place: normandy, france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 7.6
 13K
My Way (2011)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: South Korea
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Jun-shik, who works for Tatsuo’s grandfather’s farm while Korea is colonized by Japan, dreams about participating in the Tokyo Olympics as a marathon runner. Tatsuo also aims to become a marathon runner, so the two become rivals. But the war ...
Style: tense, serious, captivating, rough, touching ...
Plot: world war two, military, war, occupation, japanese occupation of korea, military life, battles, life is a bitch, captivity, rivalry, soldier, confined ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 2010s, year 1944, 1930s
Place: somalia, asia, korea, south korea, mongolia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Beyond the Border (2011)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Sweden
Duration: 122 min.
Story: December 1942. Two young soldiers leave their posts at checkpoint 83 in North Värmland, Sweden and make their way through the ice cold winter night towards the Nazi-occupied Norwegian border. Sweden stands on the brink of invasion and they want to ...
Style: captivating, exciting, realistic, tense, rough ...
Plot: soldier, missing person, against the odds, confined, undercover, danger, battles, escapades, military, world war two, secret mission, great war ...
Time: 1940s
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Attack on Leningrad (2009)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia, UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: When in 1941 Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, their troops quickly besieged Leningrad. Foreign journalists are evacuated but one of them, Kate Davies, is presumed dead and misses the plane. Alone in the city she is helped by Nina Tsvetnova a ...
Style: serious, realistic, bleak, rough, gloomy
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, siege, hunger, wartime life, battles, soldier, world war, danger, self sacrifice, female protagonist, military, heroic mission ...
Time: 1940s, year 1941, 20th century
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Auschwitz (2011)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 73 min.
Story: Auschwitz is a hard-hitting war film which shows life as it really was at the death camp.
Style: disturbing, thought provoking, rough, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: nazi, holocaust, world war two, concentration camp, anti semitism, mass murder, against humanity, life is a bitch, society, genocide, gas chamber, exploitation ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: europe, poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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